Feldman, Eric A.
The Ritual of Rights in Japan : Law, Society, and Health Policy. - 1 online resource (235 pages) - Cambridge Studies in Law and Society . - Cambridge Studies in Law and Society .
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE RECONSIDERING RIGHTS IN JAPANESE LAW AND SOCIETY -- CHAPTER TWO RIGHTS IN JAPANESE HISTORY -- THE ROOTS OF ''RIGHTS'' -- RIGHTS BEFORE KENRI: EARLY ANTECEDENTS -- RIGHTS, PROTEST, AND REBELLION IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN -- THE MOVEMENT FOR FREEDOM AND POPULAR RIGHTS -- STATE POWER AND THE CONTROL OF RIGHTS -- CHAPTER THREE PATIENTS, RIGHTS, AND PROTEST IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN -- ''NEW RIGHTS'' MOVEMENTS AND TRADITIONAL SOCIAL PROTEST -- STUDYING THE ''NEW RIGHTS'' -- PATIENTS' RIGHTS AS ''NEW RIGHTS'': CONCEPTUALIZATION, LITIGATION, LEGISLATION -- LAW, RIGHTS, AND POLICY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: TWO NARRATIVES -- CHAPTER FOUR AIDS POLICY AND THE POLITICS OF RIGHTS -- AIDS, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS -- AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL VIEW -- HEMOPHILIACS AND GAY MEN: RIGHTS, RISKS, AND REPRESSION -- Hemophiliacs -- Gay men -- PROPOSAL, DEBATE, AND ENACTMENT OF THE AIDS PREVENTION LAW -- A ''foreign disease'' enters Japan -- AIDS legislation: the first draft -- Public health and infectious disease laws -- AIDS legislation: the second draft -- The hemophiliac relief fund -- Final revision and passage of the aids prevention law -- AIDS, ACTIVISM, AND ACCOMMODATION -- IMMIGRATION CONTROLS -- Discrimination -- Medical treatment, testing, and patients' rights -- CHAPTER FIVE ASSERTING RIGHTS, LEGISLATING DEATH -- RIGHTS, BRAIN DEATH, AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION -- DEATH, CULTURE, AND BODY PARTS -- Religious/traditional views of death -- Brain death and tradition in Japan -- SCIENTIFIC, LEGAL, MEDICAL, AND POLITICAL ATTEMPTS TO DEFINE DEATH -- POWER POLITICS AND BODY POLITICS: THE AD-HOC COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF BRAIN DEATH AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION -- A TENTATIVE TRUCE IN THE FIGHT OVER DEATH -- CHAPTER SIX LITIGATION AND THE COURTS: TALKING ABOUT RIGHTS. RIGHTS AND THE LEGAL PROCESS -- AIDS: CRISIS, COMPENSATION, AND THE COURTS -- The background -- The claim -- Causality -- Foreseeability -- Avoidability -- The response -- The settlement -- The first court proposal -- Politics, blood, and bureaucracy -- The court's second proposal -- The aftermath -- BRAIN DEATH AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION: ACCUSATION AND DISCRETION -- The oxymoron of Japanese criminal procedure -- The Wada case: operations and protestations -- Was Yamaguchi brain dead? -- Did Miyazaki need a new heart? -- Were medical records altered? -- Further investigation -- The Patients' Rights Conference: abiding accusations -- CHAPTER SEVEN A SOCIOLEGAL PERSPECTIVE ON RIGHTS IN JAPAN -- RIGHTS, MODERNIZATION, AND THE ''UNIQUENESS'' OF THE JAPANESE LEGAL SYSTEM -- RIGHTS AND THE METAPHOR OF LEGAL TRANSPLANTS -- LEGAL CULTURE, LEGAL INSTITUTIONS, AND JAPANESE LAW -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- 1 Reconsidering rights in Japanese law and society -- 2 Rights in Japanese history -- 3 Patients, rights and protest in contemporary Japan -- 4 AIDS policy and the politics of rights -- 5 Asserting rights, legislating death -- 6 Litigation and the courts: talking about rights -- 7 A sociolegal perspective on rights in Japan -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Examines how rights-based conflict is important in Japanese law, politics and society.
9780511151774
AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.--Japan.
Electronic books.
KNX3098 .F45 2000
342.52085
The Ritual of Rights in Japan : Law, Society, and Health Policy. - 1 online resource (235 pages) - Cambridge Studies in Law and Society . - Cambridge Studies in Law and Society .
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE RECONSIDERING RIGHTS IN JAPANESE LAW AND SOCIETY -- CHAPTER TWO RIGHTS IN JAPANESE HISTORY -- THE ROOTS OF ''RIGHTS'' -- RIGHTS BEFORE KENRI: EARLY ANTECEDENTS -- RIGHTS, PROTEST, AND REBELLION IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN -- THE MOVEMENT FOR FREEDOM AND POPULAR RIGHTS -- STATE POWER AND THE CONTROL OF RIGHTS -- CHAPTER THREE PATIENTS, RIGHTS, AND PROTEST IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN -- ''NEW RIGHTS'' MOVEMENTS AND TRADITIONAL SOCIAL PROTEST -- STUDYING THE ''NEW RIGHTS'' -- PATIENTS' RIGHTS AS ''NEW RIGHTS'': CONCEPTUALIZATION, LITIGATION, LEGISLATION -- LAW, RIGHTS, AND POLICY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: TWO NARRATIVES -- CHAPTER FOUR AIDS POLICY AND THE POLITICS OF RIGHTS -- AIDS, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS -- AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL VIEW -- HEMOPHILIACS AND GAY MEN: RIGHTS, RISKS, AND REPRESSION -- Hemophiliacs -- Gay men -- PROPOSAL, DEBATE, AND ENACTMENT OF THE AIDS PREVENTION LAW -- A ''foreign disease'' enters Japan -- AIDS legislation: the first draft -- Public health and infectious disease laws -- AIDS legislation: the second draft -- The hemophiliac relief fund -- Final revision and passage of the aids prevention law -- AIDS, ACTIVISM, AND ACCOMMODATION -- IMMIGRATION CONTROLS -- Discrimination -- Medical treatment, testing, and patients' rights -- CHAPTER FIVE ASSERTING RIGHTS, LEGISLATING DEATH -- RIGHTS, BRAIN DEATH, AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION -- DEATH, CULTURE, AND BODY PARTS -- Religious/traditional views of death -- Brain death and tradition in Japan -- SCIENTIFIC, LEGAL, MEDICAL, AND POLITICAL ATTEMPTS TO DEFINE DEATH -- POWER POLITICS AND BODY POLITICS: THE AD-HOC COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF BRAIN DEATH AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION -- A TENTATIVE TRUCE IN THE FIGHT OVER DEATH -- CHAPTER SIX LITIGATION AND THE COURTS: TALKING ABOUT RIGHTS. RIGHTS AND THE LEGAL PROCESS -- AIDS: CRISIS, COMPENSATION, AND THE COURTS -- The background -- The claim -- Causality -- Foreseeability -- Avoidability -- The response -- The settlement -- The first court proposal -- Politics, blood, and bureaucracy -- The court's second proposal -- The aftermath -- BRAIN DEATH AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION: ACCUSATION AND DISCRETION -- The oxymoron of Japanese criminal procedure -- The Wada case: operations and protestations -- Was Yamaguchi brain dead? -- Did Miyazaki need a new heart? -- Were medical records altered? -- Further investigation -- The Patients' Rights Conference: abiding accusations -- CHAPTER SEVEN A SOCIOLEGAL PERSPECTIVE ON RIGHTS IN JAPAN -- RIGHTS, MODERNIZATION, AND THE ''UNIQUENESS'' OF THE JAPANESE LEGAL SYSTEM -- RIGHTS AND THE METAPHOR OF LEGAL TRANSPLANTS -- LEGAL CULTURE, LEGAL INSTITUTIONS, AND JAPANESE LAW -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- 1 Reconsidering rights in Japanese law and society -- 2 Rights in Japanese history -- 3 Patients, rights and protest in contemporary Japan -- 4 AIDS policy and the politics of rights -- 5 Asserting rights, legislating death -- 6 Litigation and the courts: talking about rights -- 7 A sociolegal perspective on rights in Japan -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Examines how rights-based conflict is important in Japanese law, politics and society.
9780511151774
AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.--Japan.
Electronic books.
KNX3098 .F45 2000
342.52085